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1. Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

   Edited by Glenda Abramson, Hilary Kilpatrick

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
2. Making the Great Book of Songs

   Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî's Kitâb al-aghânî

   By Hilary Kilpatrick

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been regarded as a rather chaotic but priceless mine of...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge